Brand to Sell: Find Your Passion, Build Your Brand, Grow Your Business
1. Find Your Passion. Build Your Brand.
Grow Your Business.
Vince Ferraro
VincentFerraro.com
11/18/2014
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4. What is Branding?
• “A brand is essentially a container for a customer’s
complete experience with the product or
company.” Sergio Zyman, Author of The End of
Advertising As We Know It
• “A brand is a reason to choose.” Cheryl Burgess – Blue
Focus Marketing
• “A brand is a name, term, sign, symbol, or design or a
combination of them, intended to identify the goods
and services of one seller or group of sellers and to
differentiate them from those of the
competitor.” Phillip Kotler – Author of Marketing
Management
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5. What Can Be Branded?
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6. Typical Elements of Successful Brands
Brands typically comprise various elements:
• Name: the word or words used to identify a company, product, service, or concept
• Logo: the visual trademark that identifies a brand
• Tagline or catchphrase: "The Quicker Picker Upper" is associated with Bounty paper towels
• Graphics: the "dynamic ribbon" is a trademarked part of Coca-Cola's brand
• Shapes: the distinctive shapes of the Coca-Cola bottle and of the Volkswagen Beetle are
trademarked elements of those brands
• Colors: Owens-Corning is the only brand of fiberglass insulation that can be pink.
• Sounds: a unique tune or set of notes can denote a brand. NBC's chimes provide a famous example.
• Brand Identity: The elements of a brand that often contributes to latent appeal – personality,
values, vision, etc. Harley-Davidson’s renegade/outlaw identity or Mercedes-Benz’s exlusiveness
• Scents: the rose-jasmine-musk scent of Chanel No. 5 is trademarked
• Tastes: Kentucky Fried Chicken has trademarked its special recipe of eleven herbs and spices for
fried chicken
• Movements: Lamborghini has trademarked the upward motion of its car doors
• Customer-relationship management: How customers are treated and handled at all touch points.
Norsdtrom’s return policies or Zappos’ customer service
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7. Finding Our Passion and Sweet Spot
A Market-Based Approach
What People
Want Most
What You
Do Best
What Your
Competitors
Struggle At
Niche Definition
Niche Sizing
Niche Expression
Niche Monetization
8. Once You Find The Niche… It’s All
About Positioning With Power!
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Tactically
Inward
Strategically
Inward
Tactically
Outward
Strategically
Outward
What is Your Brand Orientation?
Tactical Action Strategic Action
OutwardFocusInwardFocus
11. How Does Brand Building Help?
Build Something Uniquely Sustainable To:
• Grow a Company and its Products
• Change a Career
• Find/Get A New Job
• Run for Office
• Create a New Business
• Grow Your Existing Business
• Build a Lifestyle
Build An Differentiated Asset That Is Sustainable Over Time!
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12. The Pain: I Want To Help People
Run Downhill! Wind at Your Back!(c) Vince Ferraro
13. The S.T.A.R.™ Metaphor
• Music, Sports, Public Figure, and Celebrity Star Branding: Superstar
attributes, attractive, get noticed, recognized, create positive image in
eyes of customers, have raving fans, publicity, visible, trend setting,
principle performer, visionary, trustworthiness, likeability, great at their
craft (expertise), identification/similarities
• Celestial Star: A fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large,
remote incandescent body (seen from a distance), mass,
bright/brilliance, gives warmth, provides energy (energetic), large, will
not burn out, will be around for a long time, predictable (rises/sets
every day), gravity (attraction), sustains us (can't live without it).
My Mission: I want to help everyone have their own STAR! To think out of the
box and build engaging, loyal fans, and customers.
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14. Brand to Sell™ – My SuperS.T.A.R.™
Branding System
PHASE 1: “Seeking and
Discovering Who You Are”
PHASE 2: “Total Definition of
Your Brand System”
PHASE 4: “Reputation and
Brand Management of Your
SuperS.T.A.R.™ Brand”
PHASE 3: “Awareness –
Building and Marketing Your
SuperS.T.A.R.™ Brand”
SuperS.T.A.R.™
Branding System
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15. Definition of Your Brand – In 12 Steps
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Step 1: Defining Your Brand Vision, Mission, and BHAG
Step 2: What Are You Branding?
Step 3: Brand Values – What Do You Stand For?
Step 4: SuperS.T.A.R.™ Brand Clarity Assessment and Self-Audit
Step 5: Building a Powerful And Seductive USP, Value Proposition, and
Positioning Statement
Step 6: Identifying Your Brand Archetype and Personality
Step 7: Communicating With The Power of Stories
Step 8: Creating Your Brand's Unique Story
Step 9: Developing a Powerful Brand Name
Step 10: Creating An Awesome Tag Line
Step 11: Bringing It All Together - Your Overall Brand Strategy and
Promise
Step 12: Creating a SuperS.T.A.R.™ Visual Identity for your Brand
16. Brand it Also About Personality
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What is Your Brand Mix Going to Be?
17. Where Are You On This Continuum?”
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Personality Content
18. Thoughts About Branding
• Getting a visual identity for your brand is not difficult.
It should be the last thing you do.
• Having a well defined brand with a well thought out
strategy, platform, value proposition is the challenge
and goal.
• Branding and marketing are different but branding
always leads marketing.
• You have a brand today. You might not be managing it,
but you have a brand.
• A great brand is always a differentiated brand.
• Consistent branding in a consistent way is paramount
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19. TWO EXERCISES TO DISCOVER
YOUR BRAND
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20. What is Your Brand Archetype?
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21. What Is Your USP?
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“I am unique because of ___________ (my buyer/audience).”
“I am unique because of ___________ (what I sell).”
“I am unique because of ___________ (my special angle or perspective).”
“I am unique because of ___________ (what I don't do).”
“I am unique because of ___________ (my time promise).”
“I am unique because of ___________ (my guarantee).”
Now combine all 6 of these (or as many as possible) together to create your USP. Try to keep it between 20 – 30 words total (so be precise
and simple). If nothing else, make sure at LEAST one strong powerful benefit is included (the one your customers find most important
and that sets you apart from all others in your industry).
HINT: If you're still stuck, here are a few more questions that can help lead you in the right direction:
• Why should they buy from me over anyone else? What can I give them that they can't get anywhere else, and it's something they really
truly want and need?
• What is the most urgent problem or pain my ideal customer is facing? How does my brand or offer solve this problem in a unique or
novel way?
• What's missing in my niche? What are my competitors not doing, offering or targeting?
• How do my customers benefit from my brand/product/service? Do my competitors offer these same benefits as well?
• What do I have that no one else has?
• What do I do that no one else can do better?
• What do my customers want, need and desire more than anything else (in relation to my offer)?
22. Clusters of Work – Beyond The Brand
• A, I, E Building
• Tribe Creation
• Traffic/Leads/Funnel
• Communication
• Brand Platform
• Content Marketing
• Multicasting
• Products/Services
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23. Some Favorite Resources
• BrandYourself.com
• Canva.com
• HARO – Help A Reporter Out
• Mention.net (Google Alerts on Steroids)
• Swayy.co, Feedly, Disqus – content aggregation
• Podcasting (Sticher & iTunes)
• LinkedIn Groups
• Whatwpthemeisthat.com
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